Since last fall, our nation has lost millions of jobs. If anyone thinks the job situation isn’t critical, they might want to consider what Career Builder, the giant online place where people can go to look for job, has discovered.
Its online career site, CareerBuilder.com, is the largest in the U.S. with more than 23 million unique visitors, 1 million jobs and 31 million resumes.
Here are some of the “unconventional tactics job seekers have used” it reports to get potential employer attention.

“The search for employment is taking longer and is more competitive than it has been in past years,” said Jason Ferrara, senior career adviser at CareerBuilder. “To compensate, some candidates have turned to extreme tactics. While unusual job search antics may attract the attention of hiring managers, they need to be done with care and professionalism so that candidates are remembered for the right reasons.”

Some of the most memorable tactics identified by hiring managers include:

• Candidate sent a shoe with a resume to “get my foot in the door.”
• Candidate staged a sit-in in the lobby to get a meeting with a director.
• Candidate washed cars in the parking lot.
• Candidate sent a resume wrapped as a present and said his skills were a “gift to the company.”
• Candidate handed out resumes at stoplights.
• Candidate sent a cake designed as a business card with the candidate’s picture.
• Candidate went to the same barber as the Chairman of the Board and had the barber speak on his behalf.
• Candidate handed out personalized coffee cups.
• Candidate came dressed in a bunny suit because it was near Easter.
• Candidate told the receptionist he had an interview with the manager. When he met the manager, he confessed that he was driving by and decided to stop in on a chance.

[Employers Share the Most Unconventional Tactics Job Seekers Have Used to Get Their Attention in New CareerBuilder Survey]

When you stop laughing, think about this. The US is importing LEGALLY over 100,000 aliens on various work visas EVERY MONTH. There are at least 20 million illegal aliens in the US and at every turn it seems the Congress and the Obama Administration are talking about importing more, as they seek to ram another amnesty dubbed “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” down the throats of American citizens like those innovative, desperate ones above and many more of us who are underemployed or who have stopped looking because of the surfeit of alien labor and the real and urgent prospect that more will be authorized.

Well, if you are among the unemployed, Career Builder may be for you.

Here’s a case of Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome I had never heard of, via the book Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law
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Review
“A powerful indictment of porous policies regarding admitting dangerous criminals into the U.S.–seventeen years before 9-11.”

Product Description
In 1984, a Moroccan national gunned down seven people in a Dallas nightclub, killing six. Under 1984 statutes his crimes were not deemed capital murders and instead he was given life imprisonment. This work explores the case and subsequent change in “multiple murder” statute it brought about.

It was the largest mass murder in the history of Dallas, Texas and I’d never hear of it. The author has an excerpt here:

And finally, sometimes crimes like the Ianni’s murders present us with warnings of things to come, and thus, with opportunities to take action and even avoid catastrophe. Consider this opening by Barbara Walters from a segment of the ABC News Program 20/20:

The killer… came here as a tourist, and his past foretold the violence… He came in to America with no questions asked. Bob Brown reveals how easy it is—Passport for Murder. Up front tonight, a mass murder, it’s a frightening tale heightened by this fact: The killer came through American customs on a tourist visa.[xii]

The segment aired, not after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but sixteen years earlier on August 22, 1985. The story was not about Al Qaeda but about Abdelkrim Belachheb and how he easily bluffed his way into the United States. Afterwards, the FBI, State Department, CIA, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service pointed fingers of blame at one another. It turns out Belachheb’s records had been destroyed (along with all other visa applications) after only a year and while he was in the United States illegally. It could not be determined exactly how he got in, or who let him in, or if he had help to get here. All the Consulate in Morocco knew was that he lied on his application. If he had volunteered the truth, the fact that he was a criminal, an ex-con from a Kuwaiti prison, and wanted for violent crimes in Belgium, he could never have gotten his visa.

Instead of instituting any serious reform, the agencies decided that screening, and thus detecting, visa applicants for criminal records was “impractical” and nothing could be done to stop people like Belachheb from entering the United States. In short, nothing changed.[xiii]

This is a story from the LA Times on the IRS finally taking action on illegals using fraudulent social security numbers, (that frequently belong to real Americans) to work illegally:

Computer ‘raid’ in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated

No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month and now find themselves in a precarious employment market, without severance pay or medical insurance. It wasn’t a hot tip or an undercover informant that helped seal their fates, but a computer check of Social Security numbers.

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Kevin Vasquez, 4, joins his mother among the recently fired workers at a rally in front of Overhill Farms in Vernon.

Young Kevin Vasquez, pictured above, may have American citizenship by birth. If so, that would likely be something that his parents have succeeded in stealing from Americans, along with education, health care, and until recently jobs with Overhill Farms. The motto of Overhill Farms [Email them | email their PR firm]is “The kind of food Mom would make … if she had a 225,000-square-foot kitchen and 800 helpers! “ I’m not sure if Mom would be happy with 200 illegals in her kitchen. Not sure if her neighbors would be happy, either.

Hat tip, The Irish Savant, for drawing my attention to a recent column by Irwin Stelzer:

Irwin Steltzer is a self-confessed neoconservative, you know, those people who cornered the invade-the-world, invite-the-world market. Basically the neocons want us over there and them over here. Seltzer is also a key figure in organisations such as the Hudson Institute and the American Enterprise Institute…

Irwin is also what the Nazis used to call a ‘rootless cosmopolitan’. So the following from his piece in yesterday’s Irish Independent comes as comething of a shock.

“There are places in the UK, France, America and other countries where the existing inhabitants feel they have become strangers in a strange land. The dress is foreign and often scary, the native tongue is unheard of on the streets, the odours from the cooking of strange foods are off-putting, children are held back in school by immigrants who do not speak the nation’s language, and the religions practiced vary from the merely exotic to the positively threatening”

“Perhaps worst of all, this is of little concern to the ruling elites, who rarely live in the affected neighbourhoods, or venture into them. They are free to favour multiculturalism without enduring its consequences, and to ignore the fact that new immigrants, unlike previous waves, have no desire to integrate into a culture they often find abhorrent.”

Couldn’t have put it better myself, Irwin me old mate. Just a pity that you didn’t start saying it years ago when you had such massive influence among our rulers.

Stelzer’s piece does not seem to be online at the Irish Independent, but the U.K’s Daily Telegraph has it, with the quite inaccurate headline Immigration is not an insoluble problem Telegraph.co.uk 09 June 2009

The Irish Savant is absolutely right that the column is something as a shock. Stelzer puts cultural concerns absolutely dead center in his analysis:

…the international movement of labour…creates three problems for the receiving nations. The first, and newest, is that among the immigrants are terrorists… The second is that native workers see the newcomers as competitors for jobs… The third is that the native population senses that its culture is under siege….It is the culture issue that is so intractable….The hardest part is to persuade the policy-making elites that insistence on assimilation, rather than continuation of the multicultural policies which make them feel so saintly and modern, will alleviate some of the opposition to immigration and cut into the mounting popularity of racist parties.

This is rich in irony for old VDARE.com hands. As Peter Brimelow remarked ten years ago:

I like Irwin Stelzer personally and he was warmly supportive when I first discussed immigration reform with him, in the early 90s. His violent reaction to Alien Nation was a shocking 180 degree turn. But his subsequent writings on the subject showed distinct signs of intelligence, and with the Commentary review discussed here ["Unwelcome Mat? Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George J. Borjas." Review by Irwin M. Stelzer], he completed 360 degrees. Alas, he didn’t like me pointing this out and seems to be rotating again, or at least palpitating wildly. The reasons for this probably require another book, but seem to include intense ethnic prejudice against WASPS. Tsk tsk.

My own view of Stelzer: Luke 13 verse 7

(Not yet a Hate Crime!)

According to their 2005-2007 tax returns, Senator and Mrs. Obama donated $53,770 to Rev. Wright’s church after his election to the U.S. Senate.

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